Embark Studios even teased that this technology will also be present in Arc Raiders, the other title it is working on. It’s something that I have wanted to see ever since early demos of Crackdown 3, which ultimately disappointed in terms of its destruction.

That means The Finals will only be around as long as Embark Studios decides to support the servers. All of the destruction is taking place on servers Embark Studios controls, not the native hardware someone is using to play The Finals, and it will look the same for all players in a match. The early looks we got at the destruction system were truly impressive and something I’ve waited for a shooter to pull off for years.Įmbark Studios says it was able to do this because of its unique “server-side” movement, physics, and destruction system. As a result, it looks like players will constantly be caught up in the action and always be near something they can destroy to create a new path or block off an existing one. Embark Studios designed The Finals’ maps, which are all based on real cities, to be fairly small and contained. It’s a mode we’ve seen in multiplayer games before, but Embark Studios clearly hopes that the intense destruction will help make this game reinvigorate a stale genre. Although some of those influences might lead you to believe this is a battle royale, it isn’t.Ĭurrently, The Finals’ flagship mode is Extraction, where four teams of three try to collect and deposit as much cash as possible in eight minutes.

Embark Studios cited The Running Man, Smash TV, American Gladiators, The Hunger Games, and the recent Netflix hit Squid Game as major influences on the narrative. Details on the story are scarce, but we do know The Finals follows players in a virtual high-stakes game show. However, many of their inspirations and the primary game mode are quite familiar. When introducing The Finals, the team at Embark claimed that the shooter genre has gotten too stale and that they wanted to spice things up.

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